what he means by that is in 2000 al gore lost new hampshire. had he campaigned there in the end and won new hampshire, the florida recount would not have been central to the presidency of george w. bush and al gore would have won the election if everything else had been the same. so we're seeing a fight of the big states, of course, but also the small states here are critical to this campaign as well. in the next few gays governor romney and president obama are basically going to be chasing each other through nevada, colorado and on to ohio. >> we're asking our viewers and listeners on this debate night what you would ask the candidates in this presidential debate. jeff, if you were seated next to the president and to governor romney focusing on fonch policy, what would you question him about? >> we would question governor romney on afghanistan. but i think president obama, you would question him exactly on what happened with the situation in benghazi and libya. he has not held a full-blown press conference to talk about that. he's not given ma